graphic card problem in RedHat 9

gemini

Graduate

Posts: 109

Loc: Myrtle Beach, SC

3+ Months Ago

Hello everyone,

I'm almost completely new to Linux. I had an old computer for a while -my boss put it out as thrash and I picked it up, I even don't know what kind of hardware in it. Here is my problem:
during the installation I left default graphic card settings to S3 Trio 64 I believe and after it rebooted the X failed to start because of the wrong graphic driver. I tried to run Xconfigurator, but it doesn't start and I tried to see if I can guess what to chage in the /etc/X11/XF86config but seams like I can't. I thought there was one utility that could actually test out the graphic card and the screen resolution (I think i had it in RH5) it might be Xconfigurator, but it doesn't start.

Could you give me any advise oh how to get any further because I can't figure out a lot of things in the shell I need some X friendly interface I'm just a newby with Linux

Thanks

Vladdrac

Mastermind

Posts: 2136

Loc: Louisville, Ky

3+ Months Ago

have you tried X -configure?

there are a number of commands you can use, XConfigurator doesn't work for me either, but X -configure did. It should tell you what to type into the command line to test the new configuration.

It will save the configuration as XFree86config in /root/XFree86config.new

then you can just rename it and replace it with your old one in the /X11 directory, if it works

let us know if that helps or not

gemini

Graduate

Posts: 109

Loc: Myrtle Beach, SC

3+ Months Ago

I alredy got help from someone localy

I looked in the log file, seamed like system couldn't find the BusID for the graphic card going through munch of different IDs. Then I lookes lspci - wrote down the BusID for the card (it was in hex) and the inserted it into XF86config under Section Device as BusID in decimal and magically it worked The only problem - my old computer is sucks, so slow - damn